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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Psalm 78:58-59 → Deuteronomy 5:9

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 78:58-59BSB

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 5:9BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Significance

Deuteronomy 5:9 warns that God is "a jealous God" (אֵל קַנָּא, 'El qanna') who will not tolerate rivals, and Psalm 78:58-59 narrates the historical consequence: Israel "enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy (יַקְנִיאוּהוּ, yaqni'uhu) with their idols." The psalm uses the same root קנא (qn') from the second commandment to describe God's response to Israel's idolatry in the land. God's jealousy, warned about in the Decalogue, became historical reality when, "On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely," abandoning the tabernacle at Shiloh and allowing the ark to be captured. The psalmist traces a direct causal line from the Deuteronomic warning to the loss of the sanctuary.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the jealous-God warning of Deuteronomy 5:9 (אֵל קַנָּא) and its historical realization in Psalm 78:58-59 (the קנא root, the rejection of Israel, the forsaking of Shiloh) belong to the one developing theme of divine jealousy over covenant loyalty, which presses forward until the Bridegroom's self-giving love ends His people's adulteries.